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AudioContext.setSinkId()

Category

Multimedia

Type

Chromium catches up

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 110)

Intent stage

Prepare to ship

Summary

AudioContext.setSinkId sets the ID of the audio device to use for output. This allows the AudioContext to route audio to a connected output device of user's choosing.

Motivation

Currently there is no way to select an output audio device in Web Audio API whereby AudioElement can route audio to a device of user's choosing. Audio output is piped to the default system device. AudioContext.setSinkId() will allow a user to route audio to a chosen connected audio output device.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://github.com/WebAudio/web-audio-api/pull/2498
• Firefox: Positive — Mozilla is co-developing the spec change.
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: Positive — Many developers chimed in the spec issue and the implementation crbug entry (crbug.com/1216187). Also several partners expressed the need for this API. We have not seen any negative feedback on this.
• Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/1216187

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